A captivating and exciting story, The Scent of Lies is Book 1 in the Paradise Valley Mystery series.
Emily Parker’s world is flipped upside down when her private-eye husband is killed, and she begins to unravel clues that maybe he wasn’t who he claimed to be.
With the help of her close circle of friends and the hunky new police detective in town, Emily takes over her late husband’s business and searches for answers to his murder. When another woman’s husband turns up dead, Ms. Parker is hired to find the real killer before the wife is sent to prison, putting Emily’s own life in danger. Can she solve the case before someone else winds up dead?
Great read, full of suspense, mystery and developed characters. Evan Parker, Private Investigator, is shot in the head in his office late one night leaving Emily, his wife, a widow. 6 months later his murder is still unsolved. When Emily finds an unknown woman’s phone number in one of Evans old sweatshirts she begins to question how much she really knew about Evan. After a luncheon with her girlfriends, where the topic of infidelity came up, Emily decides to call this number. She asks this woman outright if she was having an affair with Evan…
A bit of fluff, but no mystery The writing was young adult level and at least fairly well edited. However, there was no mystery. It was pretty obvious whodunit shortly after the murder was described. The way the killer was “revealed” was downright stupid and silly, especially how the heroine managed to come up with a gun. There were a couple of points I thought should have been cleared up, but weren’t. There was a major subplot about the heroine’s husband who was murdered some six months before this book’s activity, which…
The Scent of Lies, By Debra Burroughs Debra Burroughs has made a mystery reader out of me. ‘The Scent of Lies,’ caught my attention on the first page and kept me engaged until the last. Main character, Emily Parker, is a likable, vulnerable, sassy, hotheaded, smart woman surrounded by loving friends. When she discovers a woman’s phone number in her late private detective husband’s jacket, she begins to realize, she doesn’t know a thing about why her husband was killed six months ago. Her rabid thoughts begin to form while she also…